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endeavor to persevere
"There are many
humorous
things in the
world; among them, the white man's notion that
he is less savage than the other
savages." -
Mark Twain
"I'm an Indian alright but here in The Nations they
call us
the civilized
tribes. They call us
civilized because we are easy to
sneak up on.
White men have been sneaking up on us for years.
They sneaked up on us and they told us we wouldn't be
happy.
They told us we would be
happy in The Nations.
So they
took away our tribal lands and
sent us here.
I had a fine
woman and two sons but they all died on the Trail of Tears.
I wore a frock coat to Washington before The War.
We
wore them because we belonged to the five
civilized
tribes.
We dressed
ourselves up like Abraham Lincoln.
We got to see the secretary of the interior.
He said, "Boy, you
boys sure look civilized."
He congratulated us and he gave us medals for looking so
civilized.
We told him about
how our tribal lands had been
stolen and how our humans were dying.
When we finished he shook our
hands and said "Endeavor to preserver!!"
They stood us in a line John Jumper, Chili McIntosh, Buffalo Hump, Jim
Buckmark, and me, I am Lone Waite.
The newspapers took
our picture and said, "Indians vow to
endeavor to preserver."
We thought about for a long
time, endeavor to preserver, and when we had
thought about it long enough, we
declared
war on the
Union."
Lone Waite, Indian chief - from "The Outlaw Jose Wales"
Seventy-five percent of the food and
fiber grown today was discovered and cultivated by the native farmers and
hunter-gatherers of North, Central and South America.
These indigenous
varieties include corn, beans, peanuts, cotton, potatoes, tomatoes, chili
peppers, avocados, blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, squashes, black
walnuts, pecans, chocolate, tobacco, rubber, sunflowers, and medicinal herbs
and plants.
Today, every one of these varieties are threatened by
Monsanto, Big Pharma, and industrial agriculture, among others, who are
privatizing and patenting seeds and the gene pool, eroding biodiversity,
degrading the soil and water, contaminating the food chain, and destabilizing
the climate.
What European colonists mistakenly described as wilderness
was actually a human-created and nurtured landscape, providing food, medicinal
herbs, bountiful wildlife, healthy, living soil, and clean water.
Native Americans "managed" the environment "organically," producing
and/or maintaining for themselves and the future generations native animals,
birds, fish, berries, nuts, greens, fruits, bulbs, corn, mushrooms, roots,
basketry and cordage materials, firewood, hunting and building materials,
herbal medicines, and plants for ceremonial use.
Many "wild" or
commercial plants or varieties that exist today are in fact derived from
ancient Native American seed saving and cross-breeding that produced
better-tasting, climate adapted, and nutritional varieties.
The popular
belief that pre-Columbian America was a "pristine wilderness" is false.
This destructive myth is based upon essentially racist stereotypes that
reduce the highly successful plant and animal husbandry of Native American
rural societies to the instinctual behavior of wildlife or "noble savages."
"The white man ruined this country.
It's
turned back to wilderness.
In the old days there used to be lots more
game:
deer, quail, gray squirrels and rabbits."
- Southern
Sierra Miwok elder Jim Rust
There are no "spontaneous Edens"
on planet Earth.
The New World Gardens of Eden spread across the
Americas and the Caribbean, mindlessly exploited by the European conquerors,
were the product of the wisdom, hard work, and perseverance of millions of
Native Americans, caring for what they believed was a "sacred Earth" and an
interconnected web of life that included all living things.
In a
similar manner, we must understand today that there will be no spontaneous
organic or green revival, nor magical climate re-stabilization. An organic and
healthy life for the present and future generations will require the dedicated
work and perseverance of millions.
In the near future we will either
stop the deadly assaults on our biodiversity, our food chain, our health, and
our climate, or else the biological carrying capacity of the Earth will
collapse, along with "modern civilization" as we know it.
Organic
Consumers Association
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